A new study has mapped human urogenital development in its native spatial context, revealing how neighboring organs ...

Embryology is the discipline concerned with the study of embryogenesis, the development of the embryo from a fertilised egg cell. Findings in embryology have helped in the understanding of congenital ...

Two studies demonstrate powerful techniques for retracing the byzantine histories of embryonic cells — and potentially ...

Marta Shahbazi had been on her way to collect the 2026 José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta prize for her "outstanding contributions to ...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are stem cells derived from the undifferentiated inner mass cells of a human embryo. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they are able to grow (i.e. differentiate ...

A mouse embryo study found that partial depletion of intracellular ZP2 delayed blastocyst formation, reduced trophectoderm ...

Colleagues at Cambridge’s MRC Laboratory of Human Biology (LMB) are mourning the death of researcher Dr Marta Shahbazi who ...

Neutrophils are white blood cells that form part of the body's first line of defense. Researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that neutrophils are found in many tissues during embryonic ...

A single-embryo spatial transcriptomic and metabolomic atlas maps stage-specific molecular programmes across organ primordia ...

Cambridge scientist Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to pick up an award when the head-on crash killed her ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a developing brain, a picture of ...

Leading life scientist Wu Jun, who recently left the United States to return to his homeland, believes many of the world’s ...